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Thread started 06/02/14 8:58am

GeorginaMcG

Top 20 tracks

Guys, so what're your top 20 favourite Prince tracks? You can pick From any year at all!
It's hard to rank them (they're all so good) but I'll have to say for me it's:
(These are in no particular order)
Cream
Baby I'm a star
Feel U up
Darling Nikki
Automatic
Let's pretend we're married
Lady cab driver
D.M.S.R
Bambi
Alphabet Street
Erotic City
Gett Off
Free
Musicology
The Marrying kind
Batdance
Raspberry Beret
U Got the Look
Why you wanna treat me so bad
Little Red Corvette
[Edited 6/2/14 8:59am]
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Reply #1 posted 06/02/14 9:52am

Se7en

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Honestly, I think if you dropped The Hits/B-Sides into anyone's lap, it's the best representation of Prince's body of work and growth as a performer. Every genre is covered (except for maybe his foray into jazz in the early 2000s) at its best iteration.

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I think that hits collection -- even if put against similarly-sized collections by any other artist -- holds its own in music history.

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Reply #2 posted 06/02/14 10:09am

EyeHatechu

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No particular order:
And God Created Woman
Condition of the Heart
Gett Off
Anotherloverholenyohead
Do me Baby
Adore
Controversy
Alphabet Street
If I Was the Man in Ur Life
Anna Stesia
Eye Hate U Extended Version
Erotic City
Mr.Goodnight
Pink Cashmere
Beautiful Strange
I Wish U Heaven
Acknowledge Me
18and over
Come
Dark
Letitgo

There were just so many so excuse me if I put a few more than 20
This Could Be Us But U Be Playin...
You Can Call It The Unexpected Or U Can Call It WOW
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Reply #3 posted 06/02/14 11:13am

lrcrouse

if i was ur girlfriend shes always in my hair something in the water u drink forever in my life when were dancing close and slow uptown sexuality when doves cry pop life anotherloverholenyohead cindy c alphabet st shhh 5 women thieves in the temple when u were mine cream mister man 7 housequake

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Reply #4 posted 06/02/14 2:00pm

stillwaiting

GeorginaMcG said:

Musicology The Marrying kind

So, based on your list, you like these two songs better than:

When Doves Cry, and every other song on Purple Rain other than Baby I'm A Star, and D Nikki

Kiss

If I Was Your Girlfriend

Let's Go Crazy

Every single song off of Sign"O" The Times other than U Got The Look

Everybody has their tastes though.

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Reply #5 posted 06/02/14 2:09pm

Shawy89

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1) Computer Blue
2) Ronnie Talk 2 Russia
3) Purple Rain
4) The Beautiful Ones
5) Do Me Baby
6) Sign' O The Times
7) Mountains
8) Kiss
9) Little Red Corvette
10) Sometimes It Snows In April
11) Girls & Boys
12) Adore
13) If I Was Your Girlfriend
14) Rhapserry Berret
15) Pop Life
16) Controversy
17) D.M.S.R.
18) Play In The Sunshine
19) Starfish & Coffee
20) Erotic City

Worst 5 Prince Songs

5) Housequake
4) When Doves Cry
3) I Would Die 4 U
2) Sexy MF
1) Batdance

[Edited 6/2/14 14:10pm]

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Reply #6 posted 06/02/14 5:58pm

jasminejoey

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Worst 5 Prince Songs

5) Housequake
4) When Doves Cry
3) I Would Die 4 U
2) Sexy MF
1) Batdance

[Edited 6/2/14 14:10pm]

You're just trolling. Nobody actually believes 'Doves' is in the bottom five. I'm nipping this in the bud...

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Reply #7 posted 06/02/14 5:58pm

jasminejoey

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Worst 5 Prince Songs

5) Housequake
4) When Doves Cry
3) I Would Die 4 U
2) Sexy MF
1) Batdance

[Edited 6/2/14 14:10pm]

You're just trolling. Nobody actually believes 'Doves' is in the bottom five. I'm nipping this in the bud...

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Reply #8 posted 06/02/14 6:42pm

rusty1

When doves cry is a classic song
What a knucklehead
BOB4theFUNK
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Reply #9 posted 06/02/14 9:21pm

itsjustaroundt
hecorner

When Doves Cry

Mountains

Housequake

The Love We Make

Joint 2 Joint

17 Days

EndorphinMachine

Erotic City

The Beautiful Ones

All Day, All Night

Kiss

When You Were Mine

Dreamer

Thieves In The Temple

Controversy

Automatic

Ballad of Dorothy Parker

Fury Live on SNL

Girls & Boys

The Sex Of It

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Reply #10 posted 06/03/14 3:57am

Se7en

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rusty1 said:

When doves cry is a classic song What a knucklehead

Yeah, it's widely regarded as Prince's "best" song. I think this list is of personal favorites though . . .

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Reply #11 posted 06/03/14 4:53am

controversy99

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Chronologically

1. When You Were Mine
2. Uptown
3. Head
4. Do Me Baby
5. Sexuality
6. 1999
7. Little Red Corvette
8. DMSR
9. The Beautiful Ones
10. Computer Blue
11. Pop Life
12. Kiss
13. Sometimes It Snows in April
14. Adore
15. Joy in Repetition
16. Diamonds and Pearls
17. Power Fantastic
18. Shhh
19. So Dark
20. Strange But True

I like some of his 2000s work, but I don't think any of the individual songs are good enough to bump something off the above list, which is why it ends where it does.
"Love & honesty, peace & harmony"
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Reply #12 posted 06/03/14 8:47am

GeorginaMcG

stillwaiting said:



GeorginaMcG said:


Musicology The Marrying kind

So, based on your list, you like these two songs better than:



When Doves Cry, and every other song on Purple Rain other than Baby I'm A Star, and D Nikki


Kiss


If I Was Your Girlfriend


Let's Go Crazy


Every single song off of Sign"O" The Times other than U Got The Look





Everybody has their tastes though.

I do LOVE purple Rain as an album, I'd just been listening to Musicology when I wrote this haha. It's SO hard to pick favourites! One song I've really started to love too is Girls & Boys!.. Oh and New Position!



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Reply #13 posted 06/04/14 1:58am

Bambi82

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Can't do it.. this is as close as I could get.

When You Were Mine

Uptown

Let's Work

Do Me Baby

Little Red Corvette

Free

Let's Pretend We're Married

When Doves Cry

Let's Go Crazy

Baby I'm a Star

The Beautiful Ones

Purple Rain

Pop Life

Girls & Boys

Mountains

Anotherloverholdnyohead

Sign O The Times

Forever In My Life

Strange Relationship

Adore

I Could Never Take The Place of Your Man

Anna Stesia

I Wish U Heaven

Elephants & Flowers

Diamons & Pearls

Insatiable

7

Damn U

Letitgo

Endorphinmachine

Shh

Nothing Compares 2 U

Gold

The One

Eye Hate U

I Like It There

The Same December

Into The Light

Somebody's Somebody

Curious Child

Days of Wild

A Million Days

Future Soul Song

Erotic City

17 Days

She's Always In My Hair

Lust U Always

Old Friends 4 Sale (original lyrics)

All My Dreams

Data Bank

Moonbeam Levels

Empty Room

Electric Intercourse

A Place in Heaven

I Wonder

[Edited 6/4/14 3:25am]

Everybody stop on the 1...GOOD GOD! Uhh!
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Reply #14 posted 06/04/14 7:02am

nursev

Diamonds and Pearls

I would die 4 u

We Can Funk (with just Prince)

Eye love you but I dont trust you anymore (montreux)

Ur Gonna C Me (ONA Piano)

I wanna Be Your Lover

Do Me Baby

Private Joy

Kiss

Still Would Stand All Time

Last December

Welcome 2 The Dawn

Crucial

When U Love Somebody

In This Bed I Scream

One Night Alone

Screams of Passion(prince singing)

Blue Light

For You

Still Waiting razz

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Reply #15 posted 06/06/14 1:47am

tribe

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In no order:When You Were MineI Could Never Take The Place Of Your ManAll My DreamsThe Holy RiverGoldGood LoveWhen We're Dancing Close And SlowThe Rainbow ChildrenSign O' The TimesTake Me With UAmericaSometimes It Snows In AprilMountainsRaceThe Morning PapersThe Love We MakeBeginning EndlesslyMoney Don't Matter 2 Night1999ComebackThat was tough. But these are ones I come back to more often than not.....
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Reply #16 posted 06/06/14 10:51am

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For the last day or so, I've been listening to MPLS radio. Not owning many bootlegs historically, I'm amazed at how every time I listen to radio, I'm introduced to new Prince (related) songs...this is also coming from a fan who 1st heard Prince in 83.

Favs change readily and we're fortunate, cause there's so much. At this moment, 1sts to come to mind are:

1 Calhoun Square
2 Power Fantastic
3 Pink Cashmere
4 Dreamer
5 Still would stand all time
6 Dinner with Delores
7 Insatiable
8 Letitgo
9 Computer blue
10 Diammonds & pearls
11 Musicology
12 Fixurlifeup (really has grown on me)
13 Until ur in my arms again (genius)
14 Billy jack bitch
15 Glam slam
16 Planet earth
17 Everywhere
19 Play in the sunshine (please bring this forward Prince)
20 Sex

It's endless for us as fans. I accept when Prince says he has "hits" but 4 me, there's no need. He has endless music from which to play...
No justice, No peace
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Reply #17 posted 06/06/14 11:19am

EddieC

jasminejoey said:

Worst 5 Prince Songs

5) Housequake
4) When Doves Cry
3) I Would Die 4 U
2) Sexy MF
1) Batdance

[Edited 6/2/14 14:10pm]

You're just trolling. Nobody actually believes 'Doves' is in the bottom five. I'm nipping this in the bud...

I can't believe any of those would be in anyone's bottom 5. I'm thinking Shawy's fishing for a response. Maybe someone might think they're way overrated, but actually the worst? Nah, I'm not buying it.

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Reply #18 posted 06/06/14 11:37am

IWANNABYOURLOV
ER

Sister
When u were mine
Dirty mind
Adore
Free
Delirious
Gland slam
When doves cry
Purple rain
Condition of the heart
Raspberry beret
Peach
Computer blue
Take me with u
Sott
If I was your girlfriend
Girls and boys
Little red Corvette
Pop life
Paisley park
London u feel 4 me like i feel 4 u,21 nites i think so,1,2,1234
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Reply #19 posted 06/06/14 11:38am

Praxis

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EddieC said:



jasminejoey said:


Worst 5 Prince Songs

5) Housequake
4) When Doves Cry
3) I Would Die 4 U
2) Sexy MF
1) Batdance



[Edited 6/2/14 14:10pm]




You're just trolling. Nobody actually believes 'Doves' is in the bottom five. I'm nipping this in the bud...




I can't believe any of those would be in anyone's bottom 5. I'm thinking Shawy's fishing for a response. Maybe someone might think they're way overrated, but actually the worst? Nah, I'm not buying it.



This thread is about the positive vibes...cool?
No justice, No peace
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Reply #20 posted 06/06/14 1:20pm

EddieC

Praxis said:

EddieC said:

I can't believe any of those would be in anyone's bottom 5. I'm thinking Shawy's fishing for a response. Maybe someone might think they're way overrated, but actually the worst? Nah, I'm not buying it.

This thread is about the positive vibes...cool?

Cool. I'll be back with 20 in a bit. I shouldn't have risen to the bait.

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Reply #21 posted 06/08/14 11:05am

Aerogram

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EddieC said:

jasminejoey said:

Worst 5 Prince Songs

5) Housequake
4) When Doves Cry
3) I Would Die 4 U
2) Sexy MF
1) Batdance

You're just trolling. Nobody actually believes 'Doves' is in the bottom five. I'm nipping this in the bud...

I can't believe any of those would be in anyone's bottom 5. I'm thinking Shawy's fishing for a response. Maybe someone might think they're way overrated, but actually the worst? Nah, I'm not buying it.

The poster just has a breakdown-crying-on-the-floor-unconsolably horrible taste in music and prepare for a next time where the person will declare Purple and Gold much better than Purple Rain.

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Reply #22 posted 06/10/14 3:08pm

MrNorway

1. I hate U

2. The One

3. Old friends 4 sale

4. Electric Intercourse

5. Empty room

6. When doves cry

7. Purple rain

8. Sexy M.F

9. Insatiable

10. We can funk (solo)

11. Sign`O the times

12. The most beautiful girl...

13. The love we make

14. Colonized minds

15. Joy in repetition

16. Nothing compares 2 U (solo)

17. Erotic city

18. The grand progression

19. Computer blue

20. Little red corvette

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